NORML: A Profound Moment for American Marijuana

[kpete]

A Profound Moment for American Marijuana

Photo by David Sygall
The spring of 2011 has brought tension to the air for everyone involved with cannabis in the United States. Federal authorities have unleashed a coordinated attack on political efforts to tax marijuana and they have made war on medical marijuana programs. This has been matched by additional states changing local laws, putting more skin into the game than ever.

The bets are now in for the biggest cannabis policy showdown in our generation – right in Washington DC. The Schedule I status of marijuana in the federal Controlled Substances Act will either be re-affirmed or changed, likely over the next 24 months.

Marijuana prohibition has become the most refined and serious states’ rights issue of the 21st Century. Millions of Americans are now participating in a multi-billion dollar medical cannabis economy.

States are taking greater pains to regulate this fast-moving industry. Why? To recognize the will of their residents but also to gain badly needed tax dollars. In some cases, they are getting that money.

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http://www.freedomisgreen.com/a-profound-moment-for-american-marijuana/

[JonLP24]

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So I can read this later through "My Posts".

[Loge23]

2. Reefer Madness indeed

That it has come to this after decades and decades of a failed prohibition, is just yet another sign of how incredibly stupid this country really is.
....and it will probably remain a Schedule I

[Enthusiast]

10. We specialize in stupid.

And very successfully, I might add.

[Le Taz Hot]

3. kick

[meow mix]

4. K&R

[ensho]

5. kick

nt

[RadiationTherapy]

6. Since we have the violence, traffickers, cartels, and prudes,

what are we missing from this movement to change the prohibitive status of an intoxicant/medicine that the alcohol liberation factions did have?

Surely the laws didn't change because of too much violence, did they? How did alcohol prohibition end?

[Fumesucker]

7. Average people could see things get worse rather than better ...

Right in their own communities..

Some drug prohibition has gone on so long now that the average person accepts it as just the way things are naturally.

It's also interesting that women got the right to vote by constitutional amendment before Prohibition was repealed the same way.

[RadiationTherapy]

8. Even in my mind, I can barely visualize congress in suits and ties

vehemently speechifying on behalf of americans' right to use marijuana as they see fit.

Carlin-esque notions of rights and privileges aside, of course.

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